Will "Osama bin Missing" be captured before the mid-terms?

[bananarepublican]

I very much hope I am wrong, however, I believe one of two things will happen before the elections in November...

1. Somehow the Bush/Cheney/Chickenhawk cabal draw Iran and Syria into the conflict via some kind of false flag operation, and/or

2. Bin Laden is captured/killed a good two to three weeks before election day.

My reasoning is the prevailing fear which must be permeating the current administration and their enablers should their crimes be fully investigated.

Since all the polls consistently show a large gap between republican freak-show candidates and their opponents a massive but justifiable lie will be needed to cover for yet another stolen election.

[KingFlorez]

1. Too obvious now

I doubt he'll show up any time soon.

[bananarepublican]

28. If they're desparate enough to secure a thousand year Re(ich)publican...

... majority, anything goes!

Also, it may be too obvious to believe for you and me, and others perhaps, but not most.

Should this occur in combination with some other "event" many waiverers could again be convinced to vote against their best interests.

[MissWaverly]

2. he will not be in any position where he will be able to talk

too many secrets, but we will probably have virtual appearances through videotapes

[Exultant Democracy]

7. that only means he would be killed durning the operation

[MissWaverly]

16. No, it means he will continue to make lots of videos

that will help produce lots of fear, if he's captured or killed, his fear quota is over.

[bananarepublican]

30. Does anyone remember "Max Headroom"? n/t

[MissWaverly]

37. You got it, a virtual terrorist, at the fear master fingertips

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[Maccagirl]

10. What crimes?

Educate yourself.

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[BattyDem]

20. Here ya go

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. October '08.

[otohara]

29. Yep - They've Been Saving

up for this one....Breaking News - OBL captured or killed "at last".

[Blue Belle]

41. They'll defrost him...

just like they did Al Zarkowi... :eyes:

[CrushTheDLC]

5. The very suspicous and convenient death of Hopalong Zarqawi

certainly would provide the blueprint for such a stunt. Or the deaths of Easy & Queasy Hussein, for that matter, who evidently had the same makeup artist as Zarqawi.

[BattyDem]

6. Does it really matter anymore?

Terrorism and Al Qaeda have grown so far beyond Osama bin Laden that his capture would mean almost nothing now. JMHO

[Exultant Democracy]

8. if he is killed in Oct, guess who wins the elections in November?

[BattyDem]

12. "Killing" Osama wouldn't change the reality of Iraq

It wouldn't bring down gas prices, fix the economy, improve public education and make higher education more afforable, bring back all those outsourced jobs, provide us with affordable healthcare, secure our borders, ports, airlines, etc. and give us politicians who truly represent the people they are elected to serve. All of these things are high on the list of priorities of the people I talk to and a "dead bin Laden" won't change that. I honestly think they waited too long to play that particular card.

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[BattyDem]

18. It depends on how many people have stopped "drinking the Kool-Aid"

We've seen a lot of Americans "wake up" since Katrina. They KNOW they're being manipulated by fear and they know the government has no real plan to help us before, during or after an attack. Right now, it looks like there's still that die-hard 33% that believe everything they're told and think capturing bin Laden is the answer to all our problems. The question is ... how many of the other 67% would agree? Sure, they would be very happy that bin Laden was eliminated - we all would - but that's the not issue. How many of those 67% would suddenly forget everything Bush has done (or failed to do) and begin supporting him simply because he captured a man that should have been captured at least four years ago?

[Exultant Democracy]

36. I hope you are right, but then the questions is

if killing Osama isn't enough for them to stay in power, what will they have to do?

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[BattyDem]

15. I'm saying that his capture would no longer have the impact ...

that it would have had before. I'd love to see him dead or in jail ... but that's not the point I was trying to make. I was talking about the political impact of his capture/death. I think the GOP waited too long to play that card and they won't get the boost they would have gotten three or four years ago, especially since they have spent all that time building up all those "Number 2" guys as major players. Bush himself has said that he no longer gives bin Laden much thought.

Someone on Current said today that "Al Qaeda has gone from an organization to an ideology" - that sums it up perfectly. Al Qaeda is no longer just bin Laden's organization. It's gone far beyond that and while taking out bin Laden would give me great satisfaction, I don't believe it would affect Al Qaeda or terrorism one bit. :-(

[boobooday]

9. Goldstein . . . I mean Bin Laden

Will never die.

[vanboggie]

17. Capture the Bush buddy? Naw. n/t

[raysr]

19. No, that's not

part of the deal that was made with him, not to attack the US until * is gone.

[Mz Pip]

21. Too little too late

to matter in the grand scheme of things. I want him caught. Shit, I'd like to see his head on a stick paraded through Central Park.

But even that won't make me support the Repukes in 2006.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[leesa]

22. Can't capture a dead guy, but you can make fake tapes.

[BattyDem]

23. LOL ... yeah, I've suspected for a long time that the guy on those tapes

is actually one of those Disney audio-animatronic things. :P

[bananarepublican]

31. You can also defrost his body and stage his lethal capture! n/t

[Beelzebud]

24. No, they aren't that competent.

[AzDar]

25. If it means anything...I think I saw him last night perusing the Gatorade

and 'Secret' anti-perspirant at the local Walgreen's.

[bananarepublican]

32. You have obviously confused this incident with another Elvis sighting!

Osama videos. Elvis sightings. Which, if any, are real?

[Sinti]

26. Nope - they even closed down the CIA unit in charge of finding him

UBL is likely living in comfort, in a country with a decent enough infrastructure to give him first class medical care. The FBI says they don't have evidence to charge him with having anything to do with 9/11 -- 'nuff said. Move on... forget about this UBL, he was just a figure head... er... a placeholder, like the X or N in an algebra problem. We now have every disenfranchised feeling young "medium complected" man in the world to worry about.

[Jamastiene]

27. No. He will never be captured, because

they don't really want to capture him. He's just a face to show us so we will have something to concentrate on besides our current evil regime.

[bananarepublican]

33. Once Osama "bites the dust" they can turn on Chavez!

The right-wing-freak-show currently running the country has a star studded cast of future "boogiemen" just rearing to go.

[upi402]

34. Hell, they can just let DUers attack Chavez n/t

[Kip Humphrey]

35. Are you sure "being captured" is in his contract?

[raysr]

38. My thoughts exactly

[bananarepublican]

44. Being the designated patsy wasn't in Oswald's contract either!

Your sentiment though is probably very close to the truth. Maybe the Bin Laden's would end their friendshipo with the Bush's should the CIA double cross Osama.

[timtom]

39. By all means!

Disney engineers are completing the animatronic model of Osama even now.

[InaneAnanity]

40. No

He's already dead. Been dead for two years now. Remember when we used to get live bin laden tapes?? Then, about 2 years ago, we got a couple of bad tapes where it didn't look like bin laden, and since then just audio tapes.

Bin Laden is dead. His skin is rotted away by now.

[bananarepublican]

43. He may have been snap frozen for a rainy day! n/t

[Rainscents]

42. No...

GOP need to bring him out for '08, '10. '12 and so on. Eveb thou, he is dead.

[bananarepublican]

45. But what other stunts are the GOP most likely going to stage? n/t